Jay Wright
Jay Wright
Jerold Taylor "Jay" Wright, Jr.is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the men's coach at Villanova University. In 2016, Villanova won the NCAA men’s basketball national championship title game against North Carolina, Wright's first national championship, and Villanova's first since 1985...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth24 December 1961
CityChurchville, PA
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I thought it would be a good challenge for us at this point. Obviously, I wouldn't choose to do that, but it gave us a chance to play big a little bit. ... That was a good experience for us. I think this game is going to really make us stronger.
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Is that with an asterisk? ... It's an honor because obviously the coaches have a high regard for our players. Now we have to go out and earn it.
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I just told him I loved him and there's been nobody like them. They've set the tone for what we want great players to be.
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I'm so glad we are going to have the chance to recognize Coach Kraft in this way for the enormous contributions he made to our program.
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Look at Kyle missing the first semester and coming back and being able to play because of his basketball IQ. Shane has not been on campus the whole first semester, and has been able to come in and pick things up rather quickly.
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He was really getting into Kyle. I haven't seen anybody get into Kyle where he couldn't get where he wanted to go.
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I think in recruiting, it establishes us. I don't have to answer questions about, Are you going to be there? Are you going to be there when I'm finished playing?' It makes it very clean in recruiting.
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These are champions coming back to prove themselves. I know it's going to be everything they've got.
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If we have seniors like this and I'm yelling and screaming at halftime, we're in a lot of trouble. They've got to take responsibility and they did.
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That was a great college basketball game. We were very fortunate to get out of here with the win.
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That was a great college basketball game. It's difficult to take but we have to. It's part of life and you move on. We have to win the next one that's what's on our minds now.
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I know that it didn't look pretty to the fans, but it sure looked pretty to me.
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It looked ridiculous. Honestly, I am sitting on the sideline saying, 'We look like idiots.' Especially when they would go up and get an offensive rebound.
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I'm very excited about the fact that his progress has been so encouraging. But I still would, however, encourage him to come back and have a full senior season.